Do you know that feeling of being stuck in a creative process? You are thinking about ideas, but you just can’t make the decisive breakthrough needed? There is a website that will help you get your creative juices flowing. It is called DreamStudio and its’ Betaversion can be accessed via https://beta.dreamstudio.ai. On that website, you can…
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Shopping in the Metaverse – from personalized nutrition to regenerative choices
Imagine strolling through a breathtaking store with beautiful groceries. There is so much to choose from – yet, you can simply advance from one segment to the next without spending more than one second. You find yourself in the veggie section. The textures and colors are incredibly lively and you can even smell the freshness…
Could automated McDonald’s restaurants be the future of fast food?
Would you like to grap your fastfood without getting in touch with a person? On December 22, 2022, a TikTok video of the first automated McDonald’s in Texas (see Picture) went viral. It shows that the smaller McDonald’s has no human contact staff and seating area. The full service of ordering in the drive-through is now made…
How might technology change our dining experience in a restaurant in the future?
Choose your menu based on photorealistic 3D models of dishes presented on your table? Eat a dinner that was prepared by a robot and also being served by another robot named Ginger? Those are just some of the rising technologies that have started to change our dining experience in a restaurant and might become even…
What is ChatGPT? The Complete Beginner’s Guide
Have you ever wanted to find a simple answer to a question about your eating habits, the latest trends or how to eat the healthiest? Of course, you can Google it, but then you have to click through 500 links and each link says something different. Why is there no simple answer on to these questions?…
Digital Food Business Week 2023
The Digital Food Business Week from the 9th to the 13th of January 2023 gathers a series of speakers around the topic of Digitalization and Food at the ZHAW Wädenswil as part of the consecutive MSc Life Science Specialization Food & Beverage Innovation. The program is intended to help students to become aware of what…
Do we need to pop the bubble?
Do we need to pop the bubble? Machine learning is particularly interesting where large amounts of data need to be evaluated. Data is accumulating pretty much everywhere: While jogging via a fitness app, from surveillance cameras that focus on us on each of our movement, and from the mobile phone that we carry which us…
Artificial intelligence and self-driving cars
Artificial intelligence and self-driving cars Driving a vehicle is not an easy task. It is more than just going forward, left or right, the estimation of speed. Also, the behavior of other drivers must be foreseen. Road conditions must be considered. All this in real time. For a human It takes time to learn all…
Are robots taking over?
Are robots taking over? The interoperation between machines and humans is getting increasingly important in our food systems. From big food industries to small handicrafts manufactories, we find the use of machines to improve communication and organization throughout the entire product lifecycle, as well as across the corporate divisions distant from the product. Due to…
Artificial Intelligence – friend or foe?
Artificial Intelligence – friend or foe? Do you remember the TikTok video that went viral just a year ago about learning the shapes where differently shaped wooden blocks went into the square hole instead of the foreseen hole which is shaped according to the individual wooden block? Most of us were probably amused but also…
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